Chapter 25 The Weight Of Silver

• The Silver ranking changed everything.
• Within days, travelers who had never ventured this far north began appearing at our door. They came in carriages and on horseback, wrapped in fine cloaks and speaking in the clipped accents of the capital. They ordered the wyrm meat and the scallion oil noodles, and they paid with silver coins that made Kaelen's eyes widen.
• "Three weeks ago, I was worried about paying the steward," he said one evening, counting the day's earnings at the counter. "Now we have enough to buy half the village."